CHARLES
DUTOIT CONDUCTS THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND
VIOLINIST VADIM REPIN IN THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF
JAMES MACMILLAN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO ON TUESDAY, MARCH 1 AT 8:00 PM

Orchestra Also Performs Works by Berlioz and Tchaikovsky

March 2 Making Music Program Features Music and Conversation with
MacMillan

On Tuesday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m., The Philadelphia
Orchestra makes its second appearance of the season at Carnegie Hall with
Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit. Their program features violinist Vadim
Repin in the New York premiere of James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto, which
was written for Mr. Repin and co-commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Also on the program is Berlioz’s Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict and
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. To watch a video interview with Mr. MacMillan
talking about his concertos, click here.

The following evening, on Wednesday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m., in Zankel Hall, James
MacMillan’s music is the focus of a Carnegie Hall Making Music
program, part of a series of concerts and conversations with today’s leading
composers. The performance features the US premiere of Mr. MacMillan’s Horn
Quintet with horn player Eric Ruske and the Brentano String Quartet.
It also includes the composer conducting the US premiere of his work, Raising
Sparks, featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and The Zankel Band
(to listen to an audio clip of Raising Sparks, click here.) Also on the
program is Mr. MacMillan’s Piano Sonata performed by Inon Barnatan (for
an audio clip of this work click here.) Carnegie Hall’s Director of Artistic
Planning Jeremy Geffen will moderate the conversation with the composer.
Making Music concludes this season on April 15 with a concert of works
by and discussion with Christopher Rouse.

About the Artists
Composer James MacMillan is considered to be the preeminent Scottish
composer of his generation. Mr. MacMillan studied music at Edinburgh University
and completed his doctoral studies in composition at Durham University with
John Casken. After working as a lecturer at Manchester University, he returned
to Scotland and settled in Glasgow. Mr. MacMillan is internationally active as
a conductor, working as composer and conductor with the BBC Philharmonic from
2000–2009. In 2010, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. Mr. MacMillan’s international career
was launched at the BBC Proms in 1990 with the performance of The Confession
of Isobel Gowdie. His orchestral output includes the percussion concerto Veni,
Veni, Emmanuel, premiered by Evelyn Glennie in 1992 which has since
received over 400 performances and has been programmed by leading international
orchestras and conductors including the New York Philharmonic under Leonard
Slatkin, The Philadelphia Orchestra under Andrew Davis, and the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi. Recordings of Mr. MacMillan’s works can
be heard on the Hyperion, Naxos, Black Box, Coro, Linn, and LSO Live labels.
The Koch Schwann disc of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Tryst
won the 1993 Gramophone Contemporary Music Record of the Year Award, and
the BMG recording of Veni, Veni, Emmanuel won the 1993 Classic CD Award
for Contemporary Music. Upcoming highlights for Mr. MacMillan include premieres
of his Piano Concerto No.3 for Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Minnesota Orchestra;
Seraph for trumpet player Alison Balsom; and a new one-act opera, Clemency,
commissioned by the ROH2, Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Britten
Sinfonia. James MacMillan is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.

Violinist Vadim Repin made his French debut at the age of 13; in December
2010, he was made a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters, an honor
which he shares with two of his greatest mentors, Mstislav Rostropovich and
Yehudi Menuhin. Mr. Repin started to play violin at the age of five, and, six
months later, he had his first stage performance. At 11, he won the gold medal
in all age categories in the Wieniawski Violin Competition and gave his recital
debuts in Moscow and St Petersburg. In 1985, at 14, he made debuts in Tokyo,
Munich, Berlin, and Helsinki; a year later, he debuted at Carnegie Hall. In
1987, Mr. Repin became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Reine
Elisabeth Concours violin competition. Since then, he has performed with many
of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. Mr. Repin’s recent
performance highlights include concerts with conductors Riccardo Muti in New
York, Christian Thielemann in Tokyo, Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig, a tour of
Australia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, and the
world premiere of James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony
Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. Early in 2010, Mr. Repin was awarded the Victoire
d’Honneur, the French recording industry’s most prestigious musical award for a
lifetime dedicated to music.

Charles Dutoit is Chief Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well
as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra. In summer 2010, he began his tenure as Music Director of the Verbier
Festival Orchestra. Since his debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1980,
Mr. Dutoit has gone on to conduct all the major US orchestras, including those
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco,
Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. He has also performed regularly with many of the
great orchestras of Europe, including the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as the Israel Philharmonic and the major
orchestras of Japan, South America, and Australia. In the 2012–2013 season, he will
assume the title of conductor laureate of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr.
Dutoit has recorded extensively for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Philips,
CBS, Erato, and other labels. His more than 170 recordings—half of them with
the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, which he led for 25 years—have garnered
more than 40 awards and distinctions.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is among the world’s leading orchestras.
Renowned for its artistic excellence since its founding in 1900, the orchestra
has inspired audiences through thousands of live performances, recordings, and
broadcasts in Philadelphia and throughout the world. With only seven music
directors throughout more than a century of unswerving orchestral distinction,
the artistic heritage of The Philadelphia Orchestra is attributed to
extraordinary musicianship under the leadership and innovation of Fritz Scheel,
Carl Pohlig, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang
Sawallisch, and Christoph Eschenbach. After thirty years of a celebrated association
with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit continues the tradition as
chief conductor. With the 2012–2013 season, the orchestra honors Mr. Dutoit by
bestowing the title of conductor laureate upon him. Yannick Nézet-Séguin
assumed the title of music director designate in June 2010, immediately joining
the orchestra’s leadership team. He takes up the baton as The Philadelphia
Orchestra’s next music director in 2012. Each year, the orchestra presents a
subscription season in Philadelphia, as well as education and community
partnership programs, annual appearances at Carnegie Hall, and a three-week
tour. Its summer schedule includes performances at Philadelphia’s Mann Center
for the Performing Arts, free neighborhood concerts, and residencies at the
Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The
orchestra and Maestro Dutoit next return to Carnegie Hall on May 3 for an
all-Stravinsky program of works based on Greek mythology: Apollo (Apollon
musagète) and Oedipus Rex.

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